Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
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If youth knew; if age could.
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The world is no nursery.
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In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
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But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.
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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.
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The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.
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Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
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Dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.
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Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
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As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
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To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
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If you can't do it, give up!
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An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.